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atlixcatl.

Headword: 
atlixcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person from Atlixco (see Karttunen); also, there was an Atlixcatzin tlacateccatl who was the son of the ruler Ahuitzotzin, who married a daughter of the lord Cahualtzin; Atlixcatzin tlacateccatl had two sons, don Diego Cahualtzin and don Martín Ezmallintzin (the latter two established the alcaldeship in Mexico City) (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 86–87.

Orthographic Variants: 
ātlīxcatl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːtɬiːʃkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTLĪXCA-TL person from ATLIXCO / natural de Atlixco (C)[(1)Bf.11r.(1)Cf.56r]. See ĀTLĪXCO.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 14.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents atlixcatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity